A9355

Gold Quarter Repeating Ruby Cylinder

£3,500.00

Signed  French
Circa   1830
A fine 19th Century French quarter repeating ruby cylinder in a gold open face case.
Diameter   53 mm         

Out of stock

Description

A fine 19th Century French quarter repeating ruby cylinder in a gold open face case.  Keywind gilt bar movement with suspended going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel parachute suspension, blue steel regulator with temperature compensation curb. Plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Ruby cylinder, steel escape wheel.  Push pendant quarter repeating on two polished steel gongs.  Silver engine turned dial with subsidiary seconds offset at three o'clock, Roman numerals, blue steel Breguet hands.  Fine engine turned 18 carat open face case with engine turned middle.  Gold bow and push pendant, locking slide in the band.  Wound and set through the plain gilt metal cuvette.

In excellent overall condition.  Very similar to Breguet's work but surprisingly unsigned